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'' The above remarks clo not apply to KuiTa- 

 chee, wliose temperature is kept more uniform 

 by the sea, and whose meteorology [though ex- 

 tremely interesting in a medical and sanatory 

 point of view] is not valuable in connection 

 with cultivation on a large scale. They apj^ly 

 to Sindh, from Hyderabad to Shikarpoor, in- 

 cluding the fertile districts of Larkhana and 

 Sehwan, and those parts which are supplied 

 with water from the Indus and its branches. 



2. "Which is almost out of the range of the 

 Monsoon. 



3. "Whose overflowing river makes up, to a 

 certain extent, for the deficiency of rain 

 above noted. 



4. " Whose soil is plastic clay, most strongly 

 impregnated with salt, quickly covered 

 with the fertile Avarp of a river remarkably 

 charged with fertilizing matter, when 

 [naturally or by canals] it is brought within 

 its influence, and as quickly reduced to a 

 barren sand, when the river is diverted, or 

 never brought near it. In many parts also 

 are rocky formations, chiefly of carbonate of 

 lime. 



5. " Where the date tree from the equator 



